Gun Culture 2.0: LGBTQ edition - 'It's all about survival… we just don't want to be put in concentration camps'
The Pink Pistols LGBTQ gun advocacy group push 'Armed Gays Don't Get Bashed' as their slogan, and have reported a surge in nationwide chapters, but the Socialist Rifle Association warned of the rush in gun ownership.
'Guns are weapons, and they're really good at what they do, which is killing things,' one instructor said. '85 percent of suicides attempted with firearms lead to death.'
Gun Culture 2.0: LGBTQ edition - 'It's all about survival… we just don't want to be put in concentration camps'
The Pink Pistols LGBTQ gun advocacy group push 'Armed Gays Don't Get Bashed' as their slogan, and have reported a surge in nationwide chapters, but the Socialist Rifle Association warned of the rush in gun ownership.
'Guns are weapons, and they're really good at what they do, which is killing things,' one instructor said. '85 percent of suicides attempted with firearms lead to death.'
As a result, the pandemic saw many newcomers to Telegram, including prominent anti-vaccine activists who used the app's hands-off approach to share false information on shots, a study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue shows. In the past, it was noticed that through bulk SMSes, investors were induced to invest in or purchase the stocks of certain listed companies. At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. Individual messages can be fully encrypted. But the user has to turn on that function. It's not automatic, as it is on Signal and WhatsApp. Markets continued to grapple with the economic and corporate earnings implications relating to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. “We have a ton of uncertainty right now,” said Stephanie Link, chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower Advisors. “We’re dealing with a war, we’re dealing with inflation. We don’t know what it means to earnings.”
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